In the 1960s The Beatles made a film of their magical Mytsery tour- featured in the film , and worn many times afterwards- is a wonderful granny square vest waistcoat worn by Paul McCartney.
Its made in wonderful muted colours and we feel that it would be a great garment to wear today, and so we have created a pattern for you to make it yourself
You can find the pattern to purchase in our ebay store by clicking here-
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This is a really unusual find- this is a pullout from a 1968 magazine for a range of knitting patterns which are modelled by the stars of coronation street of the time! Theres Ena Sharples, Pat Phoenix as Elsie Tanner, Albert Tatlock, Bill Kenwright, Emily Nugent (or Bishop as she is now), Minnie Caldwell, Ken Barlows first wife (in a very fetching mod mini dress) , Len Fairclough and more.....
Take a look at the photos below to see them modelling the knitwear.
This is Minnie Caldwell in a dressing gown that you can knit for yourself...
Ken Barlows first wife in actually quite a fab crochet mod mini dress!
The street siren of the time, Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) in a rather nice knitted suit
Emily Bishop (nee Nugent) modelling a dress to make
And one of my favourite characters- Albert Tatlock.....
Its quite a good snapshot of fashions of the late 1960s as you can see that there was a mixture of fab, funky fashionable wear, and quite old fashioned homely wear too.......
The original is on ebay to purchase if anyone is interested- its a wonderful piece of Coronation Street memorabilia. ! Find it by clicking here
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This is a very rare booklet that we have sourced and digitalised for a set of wonderful and very stylish patterns for knitting machines. They are really unusual not only because machine knitting patterns were not known for their fashion conscious looks at the time, but also because the model is Twiggy.
These patterns are hip, fab and groovy in the true sense of the words- this one would look great today- and the long maxi dress could also be used as bridal wear and a wedding dress.
This stylish jacket has overtones of the Ossie Clarke designs of the time, and the elegant skirt comes with instructions for 2 lengths- mid and maxi.
There are also looks of Bill Gibb design sin this one- the midi jacket os wonderful and would look so stylish today too- either in the same bright colours or perhaps in more muted tones such as creams, whites and neutrals.
Look at these wonderful tight skinny rib jumpers too- they were made a size smaller than normal so that they clung really well to the contours....
This is such a great concept- its a poncho that can also be worn as a skirt! We love it! and ponchos are in the shops this autumn so are hip fab and groovey now too....
Please note that these are machine knitting patterns and not hand knitting patterns. They instructions are not for any particular type or make of machine and so are reasonably easy to follow.There are patterns for both single bed machines and double beds too.
The ebooklet can be found and purchased by clicking here, at our Vintage Visage website. Its the start of a new section of vintage machine knitting patterns
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This is a wonderful fair isle design vintage knitting pattern- modelled by the also very wonderful Roger Moore, who graduated from knitting pattern modelling to be a fab actor as James Bond!
Make your own matching pullover- The pattern is available in our ebay store now which you can find by clicking here...
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Well- this is such a rare find- its not often that we find a supermodel modelling for knitting patterns- (except Twiggy of course who we have featured before) but here we find the wonderful and iconic Grace Coddington on this mod knitting pattern.
This is a wonderful mod style 1960s mod suit vintage knitting pattern , consisting of the box jacket with three quarter length sleeves, the mini skirt and the blouse underneath, all knitted! We love the pretty pink and red colours- we also think that it would look pretty fab hip and groovy made in black and white too- a white suit with black squares, or a black suit with white squares.....
It has instructions for 34-40 inch bust, and 36-42 inch hips and so unusually for vintage patterns is quite generous in its sizing .
As you probably know, Grace Coddington started as a model for Vogue, worked on British Vogue and then became creative director on American Vogue.
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The 1960s was a wonderful time for fashion- the swinging 60s had really taken off in London and British designers such as Mary Quant bought the mini skirt into vogue. The mod scene took fashion to its heart- many top pop stars wore mod suits and the girls wore stylish mod fashions- and it wasn't long before the yarn companies bought out knitting and crochet leaflets to enable everyone to make fab mod fashions at home
These patterns that Vintage Visage have sourced below are just a few of the 1960s fashions that we have on the website and in our ebay shop for you to make. Do you recognise the first model? yes- its Twiggy (we do have pictures of other celebrities who modelled knitting and crochet patterns- including James Bond- so please check back for more posts on that soon)- and doesn't she look so good in that fab suit? we have made the jacket on its own too and it looks great today with modern fashions and even jeans too.
As always with our posts- the link to these wonderful vintage patterns if you wish to purchase and make them is at the end of the photos- but you may just want to enjoy looking at these great dresses-feel free to pinterest them too!
We love this suit- it would fit in with todays looks as well as being a great outfit for mod and 1960s re-enactments
This is a great and easy to make 1960s mod shift dress- only use 1 stitch plus the pretty edgings..
One for big sister and a matching one for little sister- or could it even be a young mum?- little girls loved to look like thier big sisters then- it was very common for sisters to have matching dresses (whether they liked it or not!)
We love this- its kind of a mod version of the hippy granny square look that came in vogue in the late 1960s too- if the skirt was longer and the fringes longer too- add a floppy hat and its very hippyish. But as it is, short and fun then again its very mod in style. if you made it in red , white and blue then it could be very patriotic and union jack like as well!
Find the Twiggy pattern and the others too here on ebay here now to buy, and on the website soon
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